On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 01:01, Neal wrote: 
> I downloaded RedHat's new 7.3 release and installed clean on my desktop. 
> XFce, Galeon, sylpheed-claws, Xchat and Pan all worked as expected.
> 
> I was doing some file system exploring with Xftree when X locked up. The mouse 
>pointer would move normally, but no response from the keyboard and no window focus.  
>I restarted the box and repeated the sequence using Xftree.  Sure enough it locked 
>again and again.  Thankfully, ext3 recovered each time.  I started Gnome and found 
>that I could repeat the problem.  KDE also did the same thing.  
> 
> My video card is an ATI Rage 128 R with 32M of memory.  It has never given me a 
>problem with earlier versions of X.  
> 
> Normally, I set the color depth to 16-bit, and that was where I had it set during 
>the lock-ups.
> 
> The problem disappears when I re-set the color depth to 24-bit!

Maybe that's not the actual problem, but e.g. DRI is enabled in depth 16
but not 24? Can you investigate or provide us with more information?


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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